I Gave Birth to a Cub without Telling the Head Assistant - Chapter 24.1

Chapter 24.1

Ruan Longling opened her eyes, but her vision was blocked by something like fog. 

Ruan Longling felt a little tug on her skirt in this dazed condition.

She looked down and saw that she had a child in her palms.

The child was very cute and adorable, with bright eyes and sharp eyebrows. He opened his little hand and looked towards the depths of the fog. He then looked up at her in confusion.

“Mother, is he my father?”

Upon hearing the child’s words, Ruan Longling saw a tall and sturdy man looming in the mist. Just standing there, he looked radiant and noble…

She was ready to see the man’s face fully when he slowly turned around, but she closed her eyes unconsciously as a powerful beam of light struck her eyes.

“Miss! At last, you awoke.” She heard Ah Xing’s nervous voice amid the confusion.

Ruan Longling opened her eyes in a daze.

She was lying on a camphorwood bed, with layers of Buddhist scriptures piled around it. Through the gray-brown linen curtains on the bed, she could see a two-foot-tall Buddha statue…

‘Ah! What happened?’ The last thing she could remember before her eyes went black was men clad in black surrounded her and Wang Chulin. 

All she could recall was being encircled by Wang Chulin. She swooped forward to shield the man from the sword in the moment of peril and then fainted in the man’s arms.

“Where’s Wang Chulin?” Ruan Longling inquired nervously after regaining consciousness, not even bothering to inquire as to her current situation. “What’s wrong with him? Is he still alive?”

“Miss, don’t worry. Master Wang is doing well.”

At that critical moment, Ah Xing was smart enough to hide behind the carriage’s frame and make her getaway to seek help. 

She said how the reinforcement arrived and how the men in black were captured in detail. 

When Ah Xing finished speaking, she turned to see Ruan Longling, who was lying calmly on the couch with a pale face, and she started crying because she was so heartbroken.

“You’ve always been sober and sane, Miss. When you met the master, why did you lose all sense of reason? You cannot disregard your own safety, regardless of how much you love him.”

‘Love him…’

“The monk doctor at Xiangguo Temple said that the thieves’ moves were cunning and vicious. Fortunately, Master Wang neutralised most of them. So Miss’s wound was only a flesh injury. Otherwise, you would have been cut in half long ago!”

“?”

‘So, in the eyes of others, I, Ruan Longling, have transformed into a lady in love who is prepared to risk her life and jump into a fire for a man? This is a serious miscommunication. Am I really that infatuated with love? It’s visible in the sky! All I wanted was a child!’ Ruan Longling was frustrated for a moment. ‘Ah, but it’s good to give others this illusion. Then I can cover up my real intention of abandoning the father after getting the son. With that, I don’t have to explain anything to anyone.’

“I never thought that one day I would do this to a man.” Ruan Longling muttered softly, looking helpless as she pursed her slightly dry and pale lips, implicitly agreeing with Ah Xing’s comments. “My life and safety didn’t seem to matter when I threw myself forward to block the knife. My only thought is that I simply cannot survive in this world without him.”

She said those words for Ah Xing, but unexpectedly they all fell into the ears of the tall and graceful man who was standing quietly beside the wide-open mahogany window outside the Buddhist temple.

His dull eyes suddenly hardened as he turned the ring on his finger and scowled a little.

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It was midday class time at the temple.

Monks chanting Buddhist scriptures could be heard in the distance. 

It was especially calming and pleasant with the smell of incense everywhere.

After struggling in the chaos of this world for a long time, one was suddenly placed under the green lamp and ancient Buddha, and her heated mind suddenly cools down.

Beside the bed, Ah Xing was changing the dressing for the injured Ruan Longling. She carefully removed the white gauze on her left arm, exposing the wound, and then exclaimed in amazement, “What kind of magic medicine did Master Wang give me? Although the young lady’s wound was not serious, it was still a knife wound. How come after applying the ointment for only half a day, the bruises and swelling have disappeared a lot, and it looks like a scab is about to form.”

An emerald green jade box the size of a palm held the dark brown ointment. It had a sweet, flowery scent rather than the disagreeable odour of Chinese herbal medicine.

After applying it to the affected area, you would feel a cool sensation immediately without any pain.

Curious, Ruan Longling took the jade box and gave it a close inspection. She noticed that the bottom of the jade box had the words “Skin Regenerating Cream” inscribed in three tiny letters.

‘It turned out to be an ointment that could make bones develop flesh and transform deterioration into something miraculous! This is the sovereign palace’s sovereign possession! Only the aristocrats in the palace use it! Not only can it be used to heal wounds, but it can also remove scars and increase appearance. It is truly a rare miraculous elixir in the world!’

She was amazed. But after a few seconds, she was confused. 

‘This item is extremely valuable, and there is no way it can be circulated among the people! Wang Chulin is just an ordinary merchant’s son. Where did he get it?’

Ruan Longling remembered the leader of the black-clad soldiers saying, “Anyone who can capture this man will be rewarded with ten thousand gold coins, given territory, and made a marquis!”

‘How could an ordinary merchant’s son, even if he has some talent, be hunted down like this? And why would someone even pay for him a huge price, such as millions of gold, territory, and a title of Marquis?

Wang Chulin… does he have another identity?

But the household registration form will never lie!

It was clearly written on it that he is a merchant, and the official seal was clearly there, so how could he have been lying?

But what if?

What if he is not a merchant? What if he is an official? Or what if he is an official in the court and came to ask for advice from Lord Zhou because of his position?

With Wang Chulin’s talent and intelligence, if he really serves as an official in the court, he would definitely be a powerful and well-paid high-ranking official!’

However, she knew that the affluent and influential families placed a high value on their children, so she purposefully left out the sons of marquises and earls when choosing applicants for the position of removing the father and keeping the son. 

If she succeeded in getting rid of the father and keeping the son, it was inevitable that one day the truth would be revealed and those men would use their power to snatch her bloodline!

‘Could it be that I picked the wrong person from the beginning? Am I totally wrong?’

One by one, these ideas raced through Ruan Longling’s head, filling her with a plethora of concerns. No matter how hard she tried, she was unable to clear the knot in her head.

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps. Ruan Longling looked in the direction of the sound and saw a tall and strong man walking in from the outside. He was dressed in navy blue clothes, like the clear sky in spring.

Have a nice day!